Word: balled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Foot Ball. Harvard vs Princeton on Jarvis Field at 2.30 p. m. Championship game. Referee, G. W. Woodruff, umpire, A. A. Stagg...
Other foot ball games today will be Yale vs Wesleyan, at Springfield (championship game), S. V. Coffin referee; Williams vs Tech. at Williams town, (championship game); Trinity vs Stevens Institute at Hartford, U. of P. vs Johns Hopkins, at Philadelphia; St. Johns College vs University of Virginia...
Perhaps the chief interest of the foot-ball season centres in today's game with Princeton. From all we can learn the Princeton team is very strong, stronger, in fact, than Yale; but this simply means that our eleven will work the harder. We must win-not at any cost, as seems to be the motto of a certain college-but by every effort within our power as honorable men. There is no need for us to urge our eleven to do their utmost; their energy and faithfulness thus far are sufficient evidence of their conscientious work today...
...present foot-ball controversy between Princeton and Harvard will have a tendency of course to bring out expressions of ill-feeling in the excitement of this afternoon; but this must not be. We cannot afford as gentlemen to depart from the position we have thus far taken, and every inclination to hiss or call out to the players must be summarily suppressed...
...part in an emergency. A great deal of-attention is paid to the rush line which is to support the half-backs. Every rusher is taught to scan keenly the faces of the opposing men in order, if possible, to detect the man who is to run with the ball, if he can discern this he has gained a great advantage and can concentrate his entire energy in the right direction instead of working hard to force his way through the line not knowing what he is going to do next. The rusher must never be idle but should...